Night train route
Yantar
Moscow → Kaliningrad · Russia · Belarus · Lithuania
- Distance
- 1,285 km
- Fastest time
- ~20 h
- Average speed
- 64 km/h
- Top speed
- 120 km/h
- Operator
- RZD
- Train
- Firmenny № 29/30
- Countries
- Russia, Belarus, Lithuania
- In service since
- 1964
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Running since 1964, the Yantar threads Moscow to Russia’s Baltic exclave via Minsk and Vilnius — the last corridor where Russian passenger trains still cross the EU.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 16898574 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 38 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 10 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Russian Railways — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Read more on Wikipedia (in RU) ↗
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